Spring Time of Birth
By Rick Poleck
After what feels like a long and dreary season, winter is always somehow coerced into giving up its shades of steely gray to peeks of warming sunshine, welcome blue skies, intermittent dots and splashes of color, and the fragrances of floral displays called “spring.” The senses come alive, …
Family Bonding Series: Table Time
By Ricinda Perry
I have really enjoyed our time together over this series, and my family has definitely benefitted since it made me more aware of my own bonding opportunities. In concluding this series, I want to share with you the center hub of family bonding … the dinner table.
What do …
When It Isn’t Easy
By Ashley McIlwain
I had gone to the post office and was met by a line of people out the door. My shoulders sank at the reality that I couldn’t just come back and was sure to be waiting for quite a while in this long line. Sure enough, over 20 …
Worry
By Coleen York
I don’t know what it is about the mind of a woman, but it seems like we struggle with worry way more than our male counterparts. Our female psyche is able to simultaneously think of 75 different outcomes for every decision and situation. Usually 90% of them are …
Drunken Apple Pork Chops
By Ashley McIlwain
It had been a long day, and I was trying to figure out what I was going to make for dinner. I didn’t want to have to run to the store, but I also didn’t really have any specific ingredients to make a planned out dinner. So, I …
Both Eyes Open, One Eye Closed
By Steve McIlwain
Hubs here.
I have heard countless engaged couples gush unending praise on their spouse-to-be that you would swear they are marrying a literally flawless human being. Conversely, I have heard so many married couples recite endless monologues of the innumerable evils of their spouse that you would swear they …
What Are You Thinking?
By Steve McIlwain
Hubs here.
Depending on your style of thinking, your brain has between 12,000 – 50,000 thoughts per day. That’s 8-34 per minute; more than one different thought every two seconds!! Men have different ways of expressing these thoughts. Some are loud and outspoken. Some are quiet and muted. Some …
Knowing When You’ve Found The One
Knowing When You’ve Found The One
By Ashley McIlwain
It’s a question that I get asked a lot … how do I know that the person I am with is “the one?”
I wish there were an easy, fail-proof checklist I could give people who ask me this question; it would make both …
Uncomfortable Love
“What are you most dissatisfied with about our marriage?” she asked. It was a simple question, albeit somewhat out of the blue. Ashley and I were driving home after spending a day at a museum. I sat there partly terrified, thoughts racing through my mind for the right answer.
Difficult conversations …
No Make-Up
I flipped down the passenger side visor to glance at myself in the mirror. Ugh. How could I forget to put on a stitch of make-up? I looked over at my husband and apologized for my ragged appearance. He just laughed and reassured me saying, “You know I think you …
